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Praised be Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament! Our first-year novice, Sr. Anna Sutton, was recently featured in her high school’s magazine, Connect.

Read the Alumni Spotlight, highlighting her vocation journey and Entrance to Novitiate, by reading below or clicking here .

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As we conclude this year’s National Vocation Awareness Week, we ask you to please continue to pray for all of our Sisters in Formation. We thank God for our 12 Temporary Professed Sisters, 6 Novices, and 4 Postulants who are in formation with our Institute. We pray Jesus may continue to send many young women to follow Him in spreading the Eucharistic Kingdom.

Please visit our website here to get to know all our Sisters in our Immaculate Conception Region.

As we continue to thank God for the completion of the St. Michael the Archangel Novitiate House, please consider helping us raise the remaining $1.2 million of our Novitiate House Building Fund Goal by visiting: www.mercedariansisters.org/Novitiate-House-Building-Fund/

Prayer for Mercedarian Vocations: O Mary, Mother of Christ the Eternal High Priest, and Mother of the Church, we come to you and humbly ask you to awaken new religious vocations for the service of the people of God, especially to the Mercedarian family. Strengthen our Catholic homes in faith which bears fruit; so that disciples and witnesses of your Son may be harvested from them. Touch the hearts of our young people, invite and bring them to the Heart of Jesus. May they grow in his warmth and in the mystery of total self-giving in service of the Gospel. Mother of Mercy, our Mother, bless us with holy vocations to the religious life and priesthood. Amen.

To Evangelize with Mary in the Light of the Eucharist

In 2021, Bishop Michael G. Duca welcomed our U.S. Immaculate Conception Region to build a new Novitiate House in the Diocese of Baton Rouge, Louisiana due to our increase in vocations. This two-story House of Formation was designed to meet the needs of our growing Community, with the capacity to house up to 34 Sisters. The building fund cost was $5.2 Million and we began to raise funds.

In 2023, we broke ground.

In 2024, the Sisters began to move into the new House of Formation.

Now, there are 10 Sisters in Formation living in the House along with two Formators. With plenty of room to continue growing, we pray for your support to help us pay off the remaining $1.2 Million of the building cost. All the proceeds from our iGiveCatholic campaign will go towards this need. 

Please consider joining #iGiveCatholic Giving Tuesday to help support us as we continue to raise the funds for our St. Michael the Archangel Novitiate House. Advance giving beings on Nov. 17. Please click here to participate.

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During National Vocation Awareness Week we are featuring the story behind the religious names of our five newly professed sisters. Today we want share with you the story behind the name of Sr. Katie Amata Krantz, HMSS.

Sr. Katie Amata is from West Bend, WI and is the youngest of three children in her family. She has been so blessed to have grown up learning to love and grow in her Catholic faith, and has always heard a call to live for more than the world can offer. After graduating from college and serving in volunteer ministry, she has been given the opportunity to respond to the call of Christ and pursue Him with all of her heart through a religious vocation.

Prayer for Mercedarian Vocations: O Mary, Mother of Christ the Eternal High Priest, and Mother of the Church, we come to you and humbly ask you to awaken new religious vocations for the service of the people of God, especially to the Mercedarian family. Strengthen our Catholic homes in faith which bears fruit; so that disciples and witnesses of your Son may be harvested from them. Touch the hearts of our young people, invite and bring them to the Heart of Jesus. May they grow in his warmth and in the mystery of total self-giving in service of the Gospel. Mother of Mercy, our Mother, bless us with holy vocations to the religious life and priesthood. Amen.

To Evangelize with Mary in the Light of the Eucharist

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During National Vocation Awareness Week we are featuring the story behind the religious names of our five newly professed sisters. Today we want share with you the story behind the name of Sr. Maria Beatriz Fidelis Galindo, HMSS.

Sr. Maria Beatriz Fidelis, HMSS was born in Guatemala but was raised in Florida with her younger sister. In college, she first met our Sisters through their presence in campus ministry. The Lord placed a desire on her heart to know Him more deeply, which led her to enter following graduation.

Prayer for Mercedarian Vocations: O Mary, Mother of Christ the Eternal High Priest, and Mother of the Church, we come to you and humbly ask you to awaken new religious vocations for the service of the people of God, especially to the Mercedarian family. Strengthen our Catholic homes in faith which bears fruit; so that disciples and witnesses of your Son may be harvested from them. Touch the hearts of our young people, invite and bring them to the Heart of Jesus. May they grow in his warmth and in the mystery of total self-giving in service of the Gospel. Mother of Mercy, our Mother, bless us with holy vocations to the religious life and priesthood. Amen.

To Evangelize with Mary in the Light of the Eucharist